But in the past 48 hours, Donald Trump has just given us a pitch-perfect demonstration of why legislatures are necessary, why ...

White House resistance to the Freedom of Information Act goes back to its earliest days. President Lyndon B. Johnson, a ...

Nero arrested and tortured all the Christians in Rome before executing them with lavish publicity. They were crucified, thrown to wild animals and others burned alive as living torches.

Democracies facing authoritarian threats from within have found ways to push back by strengthening institutions, reinforcing ...

Experts say it is "disappointing" Google and other top AI labs seem to be reneging on commitments to inform the public about ...

Hezbollah is reportedly willing to enter talks with the Lebanese government on disarmament – if Israel withdraws fully from southern Lebanon and stops its strikes ...

Democrats have branded the GOP as the party of oligarchs, which is rich, given their reliance on rich oligarchs over the past ...

Under Trump, our system of checks and balances faces an unprecedented threat. We must demand that our leaders honor and uphold the Constitution.

Despite what former President Barack Obama might say, democracy is in great shape. The people elected Trump, and he is doing exactly what he said he'd do.

"We often think that courts or legislatures can be a check, but what our research shows is that those checks are not neutral, ...

The media make an urgent case that democracy is threatened and autocrats are gaining ground. Democracy fatigue is in large part attributable to an inherently slow process, requiring many compromises ...

Bermuda’s democratic heritage should be a point of pride; after all, we have the world’s third-oldest continuous parliament.